Two of the Sidemen's biggest stars, KSI and Zerkaa, join Laurence McKenna and Queen B in kicking off the 2018/19 Season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, discussing all things YouTube, the world of diss tracks and adding their own unique spin to the 2018 Saudia Ad Diriyah E-Prix.

By bringing together the biggest stars of the online world for 90 minutes of laughs, shocks and thrills, coupled with an enthralling Formula E race – Formula E Voltage is bringing the future of sports broadcasting to your screens, today.

Two of the Sidemen's biggest stars, KSI and Zerkaa, join Laurence McKenna and Queen B in kicking off the 2018/19 Season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, discussing all things YouTube, the world of diss tracks and adding their own unique spin to the 2018 Saudia Ad Diriyah E-Prix.

By bringing together the biggest stars of the online world for 90 minutes of laughs, shocks and thrills, coupled with an enthralling Formula E race – Formula E Voltage is bringing the future of sports broadcasting to your screens, today.

Sounds horrific.

I’d probably say something similar, but let’s be honest, we probably aren’t the target audience of the YouTube coverage. It’s designed to bring in new viewers who wouldn’t have watched the race otherwise, which probably isn’t anyone posting in this thread. But presumably the race itself will just be the world feed coverage, so it’ll be nice to have that unblocked in the UK on YouTube (just skip all the guff before and after it).
And it’s not like we’re short of ways to watch Formula E this season, so although not to my tastes I guess this YouTube thing is a good thing.

Two of the Sidemen's biggest stars, KSI and Zerkaa, join Laurence McKenna and Queen B in kicking off the 2018/19 Season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, discussing all things YouTube, the world of diss tracks and adding their own unique spin to the 2018 Saudia Ad Diriyah E-Prix.

By bringing together the biggest stars of the online world for 90 minutes of laughs, shocks and thrills, coupled with an enthralling Formula E race – Formula E Voltage is bringing the future of sports broadcasting to your screens, today.

Sounds horrific.

You're right, it does sound horrific. But even if we're not the target audience, why on earth would anyone tune in to watch er……..well, whoever they are waffling on about non FE/non motorsport related stuff on a motorsport stream showing a motor race? It's like saying "hey everyone, for the first Monday Night Football of the new season, we're going to have Bill, Pete and Frank from Twitter talking about Twitter, videos, adverts and followers, followed by coverage of the match, and next week it'll be Jim, Bob and Dennis from YouTube talking about music, their favourite cars, rainbows and pineapples before the match starts"

It'll be interesting to see what Eurosport & BT are showing in the hour prior to 12 that the BBC & F. E's UK YouTube stream isn't (for now). Plus, I wonder what the non-UK YouTube schedules will look like.

But even if we're not the target audience, why on earth would anyone tune in to watch er……..well, whoever they are waffling on about non FE/non motorsport related stuff on a motorsport stream showing a motor race? It's like saying "hey everyone, for the first Monday Night Football of the new season, we're going to have Bill, Pete and Frank from Twitter talking about Twitter, videos, adverts and followers, followed by coverage of the match, and next week it'll be Jim, Bob and Dennis from YouTube talking about music, their favourite cars, rainbows and pineapples before the match starts"

Well look at Will Buxton's "Paddock Pass" YouTube videos for Formula 1 - it's basically short 90-second long interviews of the drivers, answering the same cookie-cutter questions with the same cookie-cutter answers, with Will making pun-filled links in-between them. Hardly analytical or anything like that. Yet the internet and "da yoof" love him for it (apparently).

Sadly it seems that any in-depth, serious analysis in motorsport has gone the way of the dodo, in favour of cheap, boring & un-funny light-hearted "bants". Formula E are just taking that to the extreme.

Two of the Sidemen's biggest stars, KSI and Zerkaa, join Laurence McKenna and Queen B in kicking off the 2018/19 Season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, discussing all things YouTube, the world of diss tracks and adding their own unique spin to the 2018 Saudia Ad Diriyah E-Prix.

By bringing together the biggest stars of the online world for 90 minutes of laughs, shocks and thrills, coupled with an enthralling Formula E race – Formula E Voltage is bringing the future of sports broadcasting to your screens, today.

Sounds horrific.

Very tempted to watch it considering my expectations are pretty much at Mariana Trench level.

Two of the Sidemen's biggest stars, KSI and Zerkaa, join Laurence McKenna and Queen B in kicking off the 2018/19 Season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, discussing all things YouTube, the world of diss tracks and adding their own unique spin to the 2018 Saudia Ad Diriyah E-Prix.

By bringing together the biggest stars of the online world for 90 minutes of laughs, shocks and thrills, coupled with an enthralling Formula E race – Formula E Voltage is bringing the future of sports broadcasting to your screens, today.

Sounds horrific.

You're right, it does sound horrific. But even if we're not the target audience, why on earth would anyone tune in to watch er……..well, whoever they are waffling on about non FE/non motorsport related stuff on a motorsport stream showing a motor race? It's like saying "hey everyone, for the first Monday Night Football of the new season, we're going to have Bill, Pete and Frank from Twitter talking about Twitter, videos, adverts and followers, followed by coverage of the match, and next week it'll be Jim, Bob and Dennis from YouTube talking about music, their favourite cars, rainbows and pineapples before the match starts"

It'll be interesting to see what Eurosport & BT are showing in the hour prior to 12 that the BBC & F. E's UK YouTube stream isn't (for now). Plus, I wonder what the non-UK YouTube schedules will look like.

There’s a global stream of VOLTAGE also scheduled - same start time 11:40. Per my previous, no scheduled YouTube broadcasts globally at the moment. I imagine it’ll appear later this week.

Would not suprise me if the World Feed presentation is expanded this season given how many broadcasters are taking it in the UK alone. The 11:00 start could be a part of that.

BBC may start earlier online and Connected RB. The 12:00 is off the regular red button schedule.

It'll be interesting to see what Eurosport & BT are showing in the hour prior to 12 that the BBC & F. E's UK YouTube stream isn't (for now). Plus, I wonder what the non-UK YouTube schedules will look like.

There’s a global stream of VOLTAGE also scheduled - same start time 11:40. Per my previous, no scheduled YouTube broadcasts globally at the moment. I imagine it’ll appear later this week.

Wait, so how will VOLTAGE differ globally to the one that's on Formula E's YouTube channel then? Would it just finish when the UK stream switches to Formula E? I'm confused.

It'll be interesting to see what Eurosport & BT are showing in the hour prior to 12 that the BBC & F. E's UK YouTube stream isn't (for now). Plus, I wonder what the non-UK YouTube schedules will look like.

There’s a global stream of VOLTAGE also scheduled - same start time 11:40. Per my previous, no scheduled YouTube broadcasts globally at the moment. I imagine it’ll appear later this week.

Wait, so how will VOLTAGE differ globally to the one that's on Formula E's YouTube channel then? Would it just finish when the UK stream switches to Formula E? I'm confused.

Yeah, I’m also scratching my head a little about why two streams (labelled UK and GLOBAL) are needed. Especially since both are accessible in the UK.

It is a sound theory though that GLOBAL is just the pre-race show, while UK gets the race as well. Hard to say though given the limited info at present.

Two of the Sidemen's biggest stars, KSI and Zerkaa, join Laurence McKenna and Queen B in kicking off the 2018/19 Season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, discussing all things YouTube, the world of diss tracks and adding their own unique spin to the 2018 Saudia Ad Diriyah E-Prix.

By bringing together the biggest stars of the online world for 90 minutes of laughs, shocks and thrills, coupled with an enthralling Formula E race – Formula E Voltage is bringing the future of sports broadcasting to your screens, today.

It’s been confirmed that the BBC’s live coverage of the first Formula E race of the season on 15/12 will be broadcast on the ‘traditional’ Red Button.It’s current scheduled to air 12:00-14:30, after Keith Lemon’s Sounds of the 80s Jingle Bell’s Special and Final Score.

But even if we're not the target audience, why on earth would anyone tune in to watch er……..well, whoever they are waffling on about non FE/non motorsport related stuff on a motorsport stream showing a motor race? It's like saying "hey everyone, for the first Monday Night Football of the new season, we're going to have Bill, Pete and Frank from Twitter talking about Twitter, videos, adverts and followers, followed by coverage of the match, and next week it'll be Jim, Bob and Dennis from YouTube talking about music, their favourite cars, rainbows and pineapples before the match starts"

Well look at Will Buxton's "Paddock Pass" YouTube videos for Formula 1 - it's basically short 90-second long interviews of the drivers, answering the same cookie-cutter questions with the same cookie-cutter answers, with Will making pun-filled links in-between them. Hardly analytical or anything like that. Yet the internet and "da yoof" love him for it (apparently).

Sadly it seems that any in-depth, serious analysis in motorsport has gone the way of the dodo, in favour of cheap, boring & un-funny light-hearted "bants". Formula E are just taking that to the extreme.